Faraday tomography of LoTSS-DR2 - outer Galaxy Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Erceg A.
  2. Jelic V.
  3. Haverkorn M.
  4. Bracco A.
  5. Ceraj L.
  6. Turic L.
  7. Soler J.D.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We conducted a follow-up study on the analysis of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) mosaic in the high-latitude outer Galaxy presented in the first paper of this series. Here, we focus on the search for alignment between the magnetic field traced by dust, HI filaments, starlight optical linear polarisation, and linear depolarised structures (depolarisation canals) observed in low-frequency synchrotron polarisation. This alignment was previously found in several smaller fields observed with LOFAR, offering valuable insights into the nature of the interstellar medium and the 3D spatial distribution of the diffuse ionised medium. We aim to determine whether the alignment of the interstellar medium (ISM) phases observed through multiple tracers is a common occurrence or an exception. Additionally, in areas where depolarisation canals align with the magnetic field, we use starlight polarisation to constrain the distance to the structures associated with the observed canals. We employed the Rolling Hough Transform (RHT) and projected Rayleigh statistics (PRS) to identify and quantify the alignment between the different tracers. We used these tools to detect linear features in the data and quantify the significance of the orientation trends between pairs of tracers. On the scale of the whole mosaic, we did not find any evidence of a universal alignment among the three tracers. However, in one particular area, the western region (Dec between 29 degrees and 70{deg} and RA between 7h44m and 9h20m), we do find a significant alignment between the magnetic field, depolarisation canals, and HI filaments. Based on this alignment, we used the starlight polarisation of stars with known parallax distances to estimate that the minimum distance to the structures observed by LOFAR in this region lies within the range of 200 to 240pc. We associate these structures with the edge of the Local Bubble.

Keywords
  1. interstellar-medium
  2. magnetic-fields
  3. polarimetry
  4. radio-continuum-emission
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2024-06-27T07:23:09Z
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